On the eve of the World cup draw…….
What is wrong with English football?
Kids are identified as future stars or written off too early
Winning is given too much importance at too young an age
Skills and technique are not given enough importance
Youth coaches use mismatches in size/physicality that occur in kids to their advantage
Kids play on pitches that are too big for them too often
A level 1 coach is just somebody who has turned up and paid a fee - not enough good coaches in the mix
There is no incentive for Premier League teams to develop English talent
Many coaches shout at the kids during matches and don't allow them to develop their football brains
We (English) invented the game so are not open to new ideas
The sad thing is, we have the raw talent. I feel sorry for those kids with talent who are going to be let down, simply because they are British!
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Add parents to that one as well. Some of the ones I've seen on the touchlines moaning at kids, the ref and other dads are pretty alarming.
I wondered when the refs would get the blame...add spectators, many of whom don't understand the Laws of the Game
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25214450
Putting winning ahead of player development even at such a young age?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25214450
Foreign coaches teach technique, how to control the ball and retain possession, far too much of coaching in England at a junior-level is done by unqualified people who coach 'effective football' - that is playing long balls to a big striker - rather than playing properly.
A mate of mine here played semi-pro and said his junior coach in Sydney was a Serbian guy who absolutely insisted that the juniors, even from Under-6's, played the ball from the back and tried to keep the ball at all times.
As a result the club's youngest teams would often get battered by teams who would catch them in possession close to their goal and score - but as the lads got older and reached their teens they were by far the best players in the district and were brilliant at playing possession football.
Its really about mindset, we teach our youngsters how to win matches - not how to play football and there is a big difference.
Football, like anything else is run by people who are comfortable - they get good money/have good jobs and they talk but they only act in a token way. Dyke came out with his statement about the World cup and set up the commission, when really he needed to find a visionary (the right horse) and back him. For me that man is Glenn Hoddle. It should be down to him who he appoints, what he does - Dyke's role should have been to give him complete power over grassroots football and a big budget.
Feathers would have been ruffled- Dinosaurs kicked out - it would have been a revolution - but that is what is needed.
If we had somebody who would really shake things up -instead of Dyke - we might start getting somewhere. But the system will never let that happen.
Many countries where the best players are coming from dont have these luxuries so have to get outside if they want to play.
@Ormiston also has it spot on... We need to teach young kids how to play Football and not win at any cost from a really young age and we need to stop thinking the next Generation will be it and then slating them because they're not.
Whenever you go to England games some fans will only back those playing for their National side... i.e. I remember one time we played Kazakhstan, Ashley Cole did a poor pass and some bloke along from me shouted that he was shit... When I turned round and asked how he got to that conclusion it was because he had been simply greedy leaving Arsenal for Chelsea.
After Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal at the last World Cup I heard he always got a round of applause from the opposition fans (even Real Madrid) when his name was read out because he won the World Cup for SPAIN and not Barcelona.
Could never see that happening here as there isnt an all round togetherness
Our youth game inhibits the type of player we need. Becuase winning is everything, boys are encouraged not to try certain things - but you need to try things and be willing to and have an environment where you can make mistakes to improve.
Hard work, fitness, comittment are the biggest factors for a lot of our youth coaches. Skill and vision comes some way behind.
Junior football is changing . The u7 now play 5 aside for two years then they go to 7 aside for two years then 9 aside for two years before going to 11 aside .
Also now at 7 aside the oppositions players have to be in there own half when a goal kick is being taken . This way it enables the kids to play from the back without having the fear of loosing the ball straight away .
If you also look at football across Europe that tend to play 7 aside up to u11 on 9 aside pitches so they have lots and lots of space and time when they are on the ball .
I'm only a junior coach of an u11 team I have no badges . But here is your problem I have played football all my life and know how it should be played . Most of the guys as it has been said who have a level 1 think they are coaches as they have past a exam that your man could and they all coach the same . All I'd say is read read and read more and more books that are written by Dutch Spanish or German coaches and English football would produce a lot more talent .
With the amount of youngsters playing football in this country and the new FA facility there is no excuse. We should be in the top ten of footballing countries, but at the moment we can't even be seeded for the World Cup.
Hoddle is our saviour if he gets the power. That sounds a bit religeous which is a bit unfortunate in relation to Glenn, but he really does have the answers. He can play a similar role to that which Klinsman did with Germany.
The youngest is 7 and again the set up has been well thought out,the coaches have played a reasonable standard but when in training they are trying to move on before the lads have got the hang of the skills they are being taught,so it moves on and then crumbles like the house built on sand. As hanging on to the ball seems to have turned in to rocket science I was watching the drills they were doing,coaches boy could do it none of the others could but they weren't shown! Ive coached kids rugby and cricket and you have to get the basics sorted before you move on. The coaches though do see it as a win at all costs as a good run ended and they stormed off leaving some little lads a bit scared.
As you say though its a who is is going to sack them and who is going to do it as they put a lot of time and effort in to it.For me the coaching has to get to the basics and they need to be right and maybe instead of Under -whatever age, organize it to a size/weight basis to stop the long ball to the giant who is maturing faster than his mates tactic by clueless coaches who fancy them selves as a Premier League manager who want to hold court in the pub blowing about their kids team that hasn't been beaten for half a season.
1- When you see grass roots grounds in this country compared to Italy's (ive recently been there) the difference is huge. On ours the pitches are bobbly and the kids are forced to play the long ball game because its too difficult to pass it and control it. Italy's are - well not quite immaculate but something close to it and they allow the kids to pass the ball on the ground.
2 - There are few clubs like charlton and southampton that are willing to give academy players more than one opportunity to prove their worth, they often assume that players who have expierience and are older will be better. Southampton are a good example that this is not the case. A player will generally be loyal if they feel their club has been loyal to them, and they will want to do well for it.
Still can't believe adults are shouting at children at their football games. Shut up and support your child and his mates by cheering when they score and a "unlucky, keep your heads up" when they concede. People still seem to think being supportive is being "passionate" and getting angry at everything and anything.
Sorry but what exactly is British (or English) football?
The major clubs are foreign owned, the majority of EPL players are from oversees and there are even fewer top managers from England.
We are all falling over ourselves to welcome a potential foreign buyer for CAFC so we might get two seasons in the limelight and move to some plastic Kentucky Fried stadium in the middle of a Greenwich Council planning department's wet dream . Do you think the board of a serious US sports corporation will care how many Charlton players are English or how well the England team does at a world cup as long as their franchise are in the EPL and collecting international TV revenue?
Its a global corrupt business, there very little left of so called English football and it seems, the more successful you are, the less there is.
It's just the talent development that's lacking. Academies need to pick up gifted players earlier and scout better in local leagues, instead of having the kid taught by a dad that won't have the knowledge of getting the best out of the player.
That would cheer you up.